Mike Newton Books in Order

A massacre at a Nevada desert diner draws Bolan into a secret operation that has gone wrong. Facing rogue agents and assassins who invoke national security to justify killing innocents, he moves to expose and stop the conspiracy.

Insurgents fighting over Kashmir obtain missiles for a planned attack on Air Force One. Bolan joins John Kissinger and Jack Grimaldi on a mission across the Indian subcontinent to prevent an assassination that could ignite a wider war.

Gunfighter Matt Price expects his reputation to bring an early death, but a former love draws him into a different fight. She asks him to oppose a greedy landowner, forcing him to reconsider what his skill with a gun can serve.

Bolan continues his fight against a Chinese Triad and a Mexican cartel seeking control of America’s narcotics trade. Their expanding operations force him to confront the criminal alliance before it secures its hold on the market.

Wounded gunfighter Matt Price finds refuge with the Carver family, whose kindness gives him a chance to recover. In New Harmony, he confronts the discrimination and violence directed at his rescuers, choosing to defend them against their enemies.

A Hong Kong crime organization’s push into the American narcotics market threatens a devastating drug war. Bolan works to stop the expansion, but his mission exposes betrayal at the highest levels of government.

Determined to honor a fallen Stony Man colleague, Bolan joins elite operatives on a mission through China and Indonesia. They pursue a group of powerful conspirators behind an international campaign of terrorism and war.

A Soviet hard-liner activates assassins hidden across all fifty American states. Bolan must rely on a captured American traitor’s knowledge and a Russian agent’s help to identify the sleepers before their attacks trigger a larger conflict.

Sabotage brings down an experimental spy plane flown by Jack Grimaldi in hostile Chinese territory. Bolan follows a trail of Triad infiltration and industrial espionage, seeking to rescue his friend and recover the secret aircraft.

Russian and Jamaican criminals join forces to expand their drug trade into America with help from corrupt DEA operatives. Bolan goes undercover to break the pipeline as rival Colombian traffickers prepare to defend their territory.

Bolan accompanies Cobra Force Twelve on a mission to capture major terrorists across Africa and the Middle East. Doubts about the operation grow from the start, forcing him to investigate his allies while fighting the enemies they pursue.

A terrorist alliance threatens to seize control of Indonesia and unleash mass killing. Mack Bolan and Stony Man operatives enter the country covertly, searching for the group's stronghold and weapons of mass destruction before its campaign spreads across the region.

Diego Garcia launches coordinated attacks across Latin America while holding civilians as human shields in Mexico. Mack Bolan must rescue kidnapped Western lawmakers and protect innocents as the revolutionary campaign extends toward cities along the United States border.

A failed CIA sting puts four miniature nuclear weapons on the black market. Mack Bolan probes organized crime networks to track double agent Cirello Zalhares and uncover the buyers before the stolen Cold War devices can be used.

Matt Price has found peace as marshal of New Harmony until bank robbers murder the doctor he loves. Pursuing the killers, he must confront the conflict between enforcing the law and surrendering to the revenge that drives him.

An attack destroys the command center for an orbital weapons system controlled through a human-machine interface. Bolan must find and protect its surviving human prototype, who is hunted by foreign enemies and conspirators plotting a government takeover.

A California gang raid exposes the abduction of North Korean nuclear scientists who defected to the West. Mack Bolan and Stony Man operatives follow the kidnappers into North Korea, where a concealed arsenal threatens to give the regime new strike capabilities.

A covert team of assassins and saboteurs called Alpha Deep Six resurfaces in a conspiracy within military intelligence. As attacks spread across America, Mack Bolan receives presidential authority to stop the operation and confront the people directing it.

The kidnapping of American missionaries in the Philippines coincides with warnings of an attack on the United States. Mack Bolan must rescue the hostages, capture their terrorist leader, and unravel a wider conspiracy exploiting global violence for profit.

A revived Cult of Kali acquires three stolen Pakistani nuclear warheads and organizes mysterious attacks in India. Mack Bolan investigates its seemingly invisible killers, following technological clues toward a confrontation with the well-connected organization in Calcutta.

The assassination of a former CIA director in Pakistan signals a conspiracy with consequences beyond the Middle East. Mack Bolan pursues a soldier from Iraq's fallen regime and the traitors helping turn his ambitions into a threat to America.

Matt Price enters Mexico to rescue Gray Wolf, an Apache friend imprisoned there. Freeing him also releases revolutionary Cesar Zapata de Leon, drawing Price into a pursuit by Mexican authorities and a struggle larger than the rescue he intended.

An attack on Washington's largest airport kills hundreds and exposes an alliance between an American militia and jihadist terrorists. Mack Bolan joins Stony Man's warriors to stop the group's next strike against the government before its stolen technology proves decisive.

Witnesses prepared to testify against the Suvarov crime family are being murdered. Mack Bolan travels to Moscow to confront Valentina Suvarov, the family's violent heir, and stop the campaign protecting its power from those willing to expose it.

Joan Schaefer hires Matt Price after her husband is killed and her daughter abducted. Carrying a million-dollar ransom to the kidnappers, Price must secure the girl's return while deciding how to deal with the men responsible for the family's ordeal.

Former intelligence operatives calling themselves the Phoenix Consortium wage a private war for Angola's resources. Mack Bolan confronts their mercenaries and international partners as stolen funds, oil, diamonds, and nuclear weapons feed a plan to expand their power.

Mack Bolan searches Tehran for a former Soviet weapons expert who knows where Iraq's chemical and biological arsenal was hidden. His investigation exposes guards selling the stockpile to terrorists, turning the hunt into a race to stop further transfers.

An old friend's request sends Mack Bolan into the Congo to retrieve a young man from a cult called The Process. Pursued through the jungle with his reluctant charge, Bolan discovers a nuclear threat behind the leader's promised judgment day.

Mack Bolan travels into the Brazilian Amazon to check on his friend Dr. Nathan Weiss, who treats tribes caught in civil war. Government death squads and covert operatives complicate the mission, while a firefight leaves Bolan temporarily blind.

A double kidnapping in Ecuador threatens an important oil agreement with the United States. Sent to rescue the captives, Mack Bolan faces a drug kingpin's jungle army and competing mercenaries hired by an American petroleum company pursuing its own interests.

Terrorists obtain American nerve-gas containers supposedly destroyed decades earlier. Mack Bolan follows the trail through Asia and back to Salt Lake City, where recovering the weapons requires stopping a criminal network without releasing a lethal cloud over civilians.

A Mexican governor seeks American help against the Juarez cartel, drawing Mack Bolan into an undercover operation. Corrupt military officers, Russian criminals, and a cult complicate the fight, while intrigue within the governor's household threatens Bolan's mission.

Mack Bolan investigates a conspiracy involving covert American operatives beyond ordinary government control. An apocalyptic group called Sons of Revelation and plans to release a manufactured plague in southern Florida force him to confront betrayal within his own country's defenses.

Wealthy industrialist Garrett Downing builds a private army equipped with advanced combat vehicles to attack America's enemies. His willingness to dismiss civilian deaths brings Mack Bolan into conflict with a patriot whose uncontrolled campaign has become a threat of its own.

A disgraced Green Beret turns mercenary, joining terrorists and organized criminals while seeking revenge against his government. Mack Bolan has less than a day to penetrate Vancouver's Triads and stop the soldier's lethal cargo from crossing into the United States.

Two missing CIA agents and reports linking the IRA to dangerous weapons send Mack Bolan to Britain. His investigation uncovers a government traitor and a deal involving stolen Russian nuclear warheads, forcing him to recruit an unconventional force.

Mack Bolan investigates an Iranian weapons buildup supported by stolen American technology, Chinese financing, and Russian arms dealers. Working with Bedouin allies and other local contacts, he tries to disrupt the network before its biological and nuclear capabilities trigger a crisis.

A raid in Toronto points Mack Bolan toward Scimitar, a mysterious figure running a network of narcotics and terrorism. With two Stony Man operatives, he follows the organization through Hong Kong, eastern Europe, and Baghdad while seeking its leader's identity.

A Nazi fugitive runs a secluded Colombian colony financed by coca crops and protected by corrupt officials. Mack Bolan joins a Mossad agent and a local guide to track Hans Gunter Dietrich and disrupt his expanding alliance with terrorists.

Mack Bolan searches Cuba for a missing Pentagon official investigating Colombian terrorist camps. When his cover fails, he and two Stony Man operatives confront the Havana Five cartel and its alliance with insurgents threatening interests beyond the island.

Extremists unleash weaponized Ebola in Sudan, intensifying an already violent conflict. Mack Bolan pursues the warlord directing the attacks and the Russian arms traffickers and influential allies supporting him, attempting to stop a campaign designed to spread instability.

A former Kremlin official reactivates KGB sleeper cells planted in American cities, using a stolen plan to manipulate financial markets. Mack Bolan and a Russian policewoman pursuing revenge enter a struggle over billions of dollars and the covert operation Black Judas.

Rumors connect an American security company to a heroin operation in Kabul. With his identity compromised, Mack Bolan works alongside a DEA veteran and a local informant to dismantle the trafficking network and investigate its connections to Washington.

The deaths of two Russian friends draw Mack Bolan from London toward Moscow. A secret consortium using Spetsnaz soldiers seeks to revive Soviet methods of control, forcing Bolan to confront an old enemy operating with new money and power.

Violence at a political rally in Puerto Rico sends Mack Bolan after suspected guerrillas. Connections to a Middle Eastern terrorist cell broaden the investigation, leading him and his team toward a hidden base in Georgia's swamps and plans against America.

Backing a CIA operation in St. Petersburg, Mack Bolan uncovers an alliance between militant Russian gangs and jihadists. The conspiracy reaches Portland, where armed American gangs prepare to carry out its plans, forcing him to disrupt threats on both fronts.

Mack Bolan follows intelligence and black-market rumors into Split, Croatia, searching for stolen technology. A Russian crime boss and Triad assassins stand behind the trafficking operation, while rival criminal and covert networks make the city a dangerous hunting ground.

A reorganized French cyberterrorist group prepares a larger attack after years underground. Mack Bolan teams with a Russian agent, following clues from Paris to America as they race to prevent a strike on Yankee Stadium with consequences for global information systems.

Mack Bolan tracks a dirty bomb moving through Mexican cartel territory toward the American border. His mission exposes a wider threat: an international cult whose leader has assembled disaffected military veterans for a campaign of apocalyptic violence.

Mack Bolan is sent to rescue a Middle Eastern peace negotiator and his family from hostile forces. As the mission is compromised, he discovers interests beyond extremist groups that stand to profit from continued warfare.

Two suspicious deaths in New Mexico lead Mack Bolan to a Russian mafia scheme targeting tribal casinos. With Stony Man operatives, he investigates plans to gain control of a nuclear waste facility and process plutonium for weapons on American soil.

A kidnapped oil executive's daughter brings Mack Bolan to Nigeria, where rival factions battle for petroleum wealth. His rescue assignment expands into a campaign against guerrillas and foreign interests as Chinese and Russian agents join the contest over the delta's resources.

A massacre and biological poisons discovered at an Egyptian archaeological dig expose a hidden threat. Mack Bolan confronts a self-proclaimed Eternal Pharaoh who manipulates rival religious factions and terrorist groups to pursue a plan for regional war.

A compromised DEA operation draws Mack Bolan into Mexico's cartel wars. Headless bodies suggest a new criminal power known as the Beast, whose elusive followers use terror to seize control, leaving Bolan to uncover the people behind the legend.

Mack Bolan enters Russia to capture an arms dealer and deliver him for trial in America. Intelligence leaks and powerful protectors obstruct the operation, turning an extraction mission into a struggle to take a well-connected fugitive alive.

Murders of returning American soldiers send Mack Bolan after a campaign to undermine the military. Media magnate Yuri Trofimov uses a co-opted peace organization, hired killers, propaganda, and political allies to turn antiwar activism into violence against veterans.

The murder of a US envoy sends Mack Bolan into the Afghan mountains after a revived sect of assassins. His investigation crosses Iraq, Pakistan, and India as the group combines ancient fanaticism with modern weapons.

A Haitian leader assembles toxin-controlled fighters, automatic weapons, and Jamaican gangsters for an invasion intended to restore his political power. Having witnessed the violence firsthand, Mack Bolan sets out to dismantle the force and its mastermind.

Mack Bolan captures a hacker to penetrate a Russian cybercrime network targeting Wall Street. Posing as hired muscle, he battles intelligence leaks and attacks from New York to Boston while pursuing the organization and its leader.

Coordinated sniper attacks kill civilians across America's East Coast, and Mack Bolan witnesses one in Baltimore. Pursuing the perpetrators, he uncovers a conspiracy to impose martial law and gain control for a nuclear attack on the Middle East.

A raid on an American trafficking depot sends Mack Bolan after an expanding Albanian crime network. With a Russian agent, he follows drugs, weapons, and human trafficking through Marseille toward the organization's leadership across the Adriatic.

Dictators in Honduras and Mexico forge an oil-backed alliance that threatens war with the United States. Mack Bolan attacks their pipeline and guerrilla forces, trying to stop a planned invasion and dismantle the two regimes.

A rogue Chinese intelligence officer positions stealth drones around the world for a nuclear strike. Mack Bolan infiltrates the conspiracy in Hong Kong, confronting soldiers and intelligence operatives while trying to prevent the weapons from launching.

The murder of an undercover CIA agent in Dubai sends Mack Bolan after a nuclear-smuggling operation. Russian power brokers, a Pakistani crime lord, and a British intermediary are involved in a plan to reshape regional power.

A software engineer's death, a kidnapping, and stolen technology draw Mack Bolan onto the trail of the Tamil Tigers. His pursuit leads to Singapore and the Bay of Bengal, where access to a secret satellite threatens a wider campaign.

An attack on an African weapons bazaar appears to implicate American forces, but Mack Bolan traces it to a criminal takeover. His pursuit leads toward a billionaire's maritime plot and hijacked ships threatening major ports.

Stolen Apache gunships place Mack Bolan on the trail of an Australian millionaire and his white supremacist soldiers. Their expanding arsenal, including experimental mines, turns the theft into the opening move of a larger terrorist campaign.

Domestic terrorists hijack a fuel tanker train to attack an oil field near Dallas and kill migrant workers. Mack Bolan must stop the moving bomb and rescue its hostages while a rogue FBI agent pursues his own vendetta.

Mack Bolan escorts a defecting Russian intelligence agent along Siberia's Road of Bones, pursued by secret police and gangsters. Her testimony threatens Russian mobsters in America, making their motorcycle journey a race through territory controlled by their enemies.

Mack Bolan investigates a plan to strike oil rigs worldwide, following a trail from Brooklyn criminals to underwater mines and stolen military equipment. A terrorist operation and the Russian mob compete for weapons capable of causing immense destruction.

Violent rivalries over a new synthetic drug draw Mack Bolan into Miami's gang wars. Following the supply chain toward Guatemala, he confronts cartel gunmen and a corrupt pharmaceutical company's manufacturing operation with help from local allies.

Michael Newton examines the western through its history, notable writers, and the research needed to portray frontier life. A historical timeline, slang glossary, and reading and film references help writers develop settings and understand the genre's traditions.

A militant cult threatens the Vatican with a weapon its members claim is the stolen Ark of the Covenant. As attacks spread, Mack Bolan begins his pursuit in Ethiopia, tracing the group's campaign toward Rome.

Triad pirates seize Chinese missiles capable of destroying aircraft carriers, threatening American warships and offering the weapons for sale. Mack Bolan heads to Jakarta to disable their base and prevent a crisis spreading across the South China Sea.

Terrorists seize government officials, including the American vice president, at a weapons conference in Stockholm. Mack Bolan races to recover the hostages as they are moved between international safe houses and competing forces converge on the crisis.

A Mexican-American alliance uses mercenaries to challenge a major cartel and seize its drug routes. Mack Bolan leads a task force from a Brooklyn RV dealership used for smuggling into cartel territory, facing soldiers hired to stop them.

Mack Bolan targets a Kuala Lumpur nightclub linked to a planned cyberattack on American and Chinese banks. What appears to be counterfeiting conceals a scheme to trigger global financial chaos, sending his investigation toward a powerful Russian adversary.

A mission to recover an intelligence official kidnapped by Somali pirates exposes signs of an imminent attack in America. Mack Bolan follows terrorist connections in New York before going undercover in Tehran to uncover the force behind the threat.

A deadly raid on a Colombian counterfeiting operation reveals a possible campaign to destabilize American and Chinese currencies. Mack Bolan investigates in Medellín, caught between drug soldiers and Russian criminals while seeking the brokers financing the wider conspiracy.

A Mumbai crime boss adds terrorism to his syndicate's operations, threatening attacks beyond the Indian subcontinent. Mack Bolan targets the group's casinos, weapons stores, and drug laboratories in an effort to draw its leader out of hiding.

Advanced missile components produced by an Israeli defense contractor spark a deadly competition for control. Mack Bolan follows a murder trail to Athens and beyond, confronting an assassin and a Chinese spymaster with connections inside American intelligence.

After the Civil War, disgraced former deputy marshal Gideon Ryder receives another chance through the Secret Service. Sent to investigate smuggling in Galveston, Texas, he enters a trade that threatens to overwhelm his attempt to rebuild his career.

The deaths of two FBI agents draw Mack Bolan back into conflict with an old criminal enemy. A proposed uranium-for-diamonds exchange and a compromised task force force him to work outside the investigation to identify its hidden leak.

A struggle between heroin syndicates and Asian Triads brings violence to American streets. Acting without official sanction, Mack Bolan strikes in New York's Chinatown and follows the rival factions toward France and Hong Kong, hoping to turn them against each other.

A Scandinavian metal band's claims about a weapons cache become credible when a member is murdered. Mack Bolan heads north as extremist and paramilitary groups race to seize Soviet-era firearms and nuclear devices from an abandoned base.

Searching for a missing federal agent, Mack Bolan encounters an arms dealer's guarded estate and a larger European conspiracy. A fascist group backed by a German industrialist plans to weaken America while bringing Europe under a single leader.

After escaping villagers driven violent by a synthetic virus, Mack Bolan witnesses a covert team destroy their town. His search for the bioweapon's source reveals a research operation preparing an attack on targeted populations across Europe.

A failed rescue mission in Mexican cartel territory leads Mack Bolan to suspect betrayal in Washington. His investigation exposes an industrialist financing political ambitions through arms sales, with a rogue intelligence official and enhanced soldiers supporting the scheme.

Masked vigilantes calling themselves the Knights of the Rising Sun terrorize postwar Texas, targeting Union supporters and advocates of equality. Secret Service agent Gideon Ryder investigates the men behind the hoods before their organization becomes a larger armed threat.

Terrorist attacks disrupt France's presidential election, inflaming hostility toward foreigners and benefiting an extremist candidate. Mack Bolan enters Paris to investigate and counter the campaign, facing corrupt police, political radicals, and trained killers.

An American oil company finances a rogue general's planned coup in Djibouti, threatening political leaders and a US military base. Mack Bolan joins a CIA agent and an aid worker to confront the financiers and mercenaries behind the operation.

Double agents begin exposing and killing undercover American personnel, drawing Mack Bolan into an international investigation. His pursuit leads from Central America to Istanbul, where he infiltrates arms dealers and intelligence brokers to uncover the organization behind the betrayals.

After terrorists firebomb the American consulate in Jordan, Mack Bolan pursues the attackers through their scattered hideouts. The hunt takes on greater urgency when he discovers a plan to strike an international conference attended by the American president.

A Saudi military conspiracy targets a prince attending desert training near Las Vegas. Mack Bolan must protect him while confronting a traitor in his circle and navigating local threats involving missing park rangers and an armed militia.

Gideon Thorn's journey toward Colorado brings him to Lazarus, a Kansas prairie town believed destroyed by Confederates. Stranded among residents preparing to honor him, he investigates a community caught in its past and the curse surrounding its anniversary.

Gunfighter Sloan's past catches up with him when Lucas, an adversary he has faced before, returns to threaten him. Their renewed conflict puts six innocent families in danger, making the cost of survival reach far beyond Sloan himself.

Finding his own obituary in an Albuquerque newspaper, Sloan travels to Carrabelle to identify the dead man buried under his name. Lingering Pinkerton detectives and a possibly corrupt lawman complicate his effort to uncover whether the announcement was a trap.

After rescuing Miranda Platt from an attack, Sloan is hired to escort her wealthy mother's party across Arizona Territory. Raiders, renegade Apaches, and kidnappers threaten the journey, while a spy within the entourage makes protecting his charges more difficult.

Following a massacre at a Nigerian church, Mack Bolan pursues the terrorist leadership behind further attacks. His identity is exposed on arrival, leaving him with inexperienced allies protecting orphaned children while a traitor prepares another strike.

Mack Bolan's mission to escort a defecting Chinese official changes when the man is arrested. A prison ambush leaves Bolan fleeing through Beijing, pursued by intelligence agents as he searches for the missing defector.